Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney waves subsequent to U.S. President Donald Trump on the White Home in Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 7, 2025.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday stated he was slapping an additional 10% tariff on imports from Canada in retaliation for what he says is a deceptive TV advert that includes former President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs.
“Canada was caught, crimson handed, placing up a fraudulent commercial in Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs,” Trump wrote in a put up on Reality Social.
“Due to their critical misrepresentation of the information, and hostile act, I’m growing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they’re paying now,” he wrote.
Canada typically pays a 35% tariff on items bought within the U.S., with exceptions for sure merchandise coated beneath the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Settlement, and different particular product exceptions, resembling metal and aluminum, that are tariffed at 50%.
Trump on late Friday blasted the Ontario provincial authorities in Canada for ready till after the primary two video games of the World Collection to pause the Reagan advert.
“They might have pulled it tonight,” Trump informed reporters on the White Home as he headed to fly to Asia.
“Properly, that is soiled play,” he stated. “However I can play dirtier than they will, you recognize.”
Trump had cited the advert in his determination on Thursday night time to commerce negotiations with Canada.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Friday afternoon stated he would pause the advert on Monday in order that commerce talks may resume.
However Ford additionally stated, “I’ve directed my group to maintain placing our message in entrance of Individuals over the weekend in order that we will air our industrial throughout the first two World Collection video games.”
Trump stated Friday night time that he had heard that Ontario was pulling the advert.
However he additionally stated he didn’t know the federal government was leaving it on till Monday.
The advert was proven Friday night time throughout a broadcast to hundreds of thousands of Individuals of the primary sport of the World Collection.
That sport was gained 11-4 by Canada’s Toronto Blue Jays over the U.S.’s Los Angeles Dodgers.
Toronto is in Ontario, and is the house city of Ford.
Ford, in a tweet earlier Friday saying the advert pause, stated “Our intention was at all times to provoke a dialog in regards to the sort of financial system that Individuals need to construct and the impression of tariffs on staff and companies.
“We have achieved our purpose, having reached U.S. audiences on the highest ranges,” Ford stated, apparently referring to Trump.
“In talking with Prime Minister [Mark] Carney, Ontario will pause its U.S. promoting marketing campaign efficient Monday in order that commerce talks can resume,” he stated.
Trump halted commerce talks with Canada after claims by The Ronald Reagan Presidential Basis and Institute that the advert misrepresents Reagan’s radio deal with speech from April 25, 1987, and that his remarks had been edited with out permission.
The inspiration posted a YouTube video of the speech on its website and urged folks to look at it in its entirety.
Ford responded to that criticism earlier Friday by tweeting out a hyperlink to the identical video.
On it, Reagan discusses his current imposition of latest tariffs “on some Japanese merchandise in response to Japan’s incapability to implement their commerce settlement with us on digital gadgets known as semiconductors.”
That context is lacking from Ontario’s advert. However the advert precisely captures Reagan saying, “Over the long term, such commerce obstacles damage each American employee and client.”
The advert additionally has Reagan, from the identical speech, saying, “When somebody says, ‘Let’s impose tariffs on international imports,’ it appears like they’re doing the patriotic factor by defending American merchandise and jobs. And generally, for a short time, it really works — however just for a short while.”
“Excessive tariffs inevitably result in retaliation by international international locations and the triggering of fierce commerce wars,” Reagan stated within the speech and within the advert.
Ford, who calls himself a “huge Ronald Reagan fan,” first posted the advert on X on Oct. 16, days after saying that Ontario’s authorities would spend $75 million to run the advert in the USA.
“We will repeat that message to each Republican district there may be, proper throughout your entire nation,” stated Ford.
Trump raged in regards to the advert in a Reality Social put up on Friday morning.
“CANADA CHEATED AND GOT CAUGHT!!! They fraudulently took an enormous purchase advert saying that Ronald Reagan didn’t like Tariffs, when truly he LOVED TARIFFS FOR OUR COUNTRY, AND ITS NATIONAL SECURITY,” Trump wrote.
“Canada is making an attempt to illegally affect the USA Supreme Court docket in probably the most necessary rulings within the historical past of our Nation. Canada has lengthy cheated on Tariffs, charging our farmers as a lot as 400%. Now they, and different international locations, cannot benefit from the U.S. any longer. Thanks to the Ronald Reagan Basis for exposing this FRAUD.”
The Supreme Court docket in early November is ready to listen to oral arguments in a case that may decide if Trump had energy beneath the regulation to impose sweeping tariffs in opposition to scores of nations, together with Canada, with out the consent of Congress.
